I have selected five players from each team as keepers- I am unsure if those players will count as the first five rounds of the draft or just be assigned to teams, and the draft will start in the first round-

The reason I need to know this is because if they count as the first five rounds, and the live draft starts at the beginning of the sixth round- that would make the First Pick of the draft (6th Rd) the winner of last year's league, rather than the 12 th place finisher due to the snake-